YMMV / Aftermath: Life Debt

• Complete Monster: Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck conceals the fall of the Emperor from his own men to continue ruling over the planet Kashyyyk as its king. Forcing the Wookiee race into slave labor by installing inhibitor chips that cause intense pain in the Wookiees, Tolruck also begins hunting them for sport and food. When the former Rebellion comes to liberate Kashyyyk, Tolruck continues his barbaric activities and tortures a rebel who falls into his hands, while also considering farming the Wookiee population for meat and crossbreeding them with Talz, a sapient species he finds especially delicious. When he realizes it's impossible to hold Kashyyyk, Tolruck ordered his small fleet of Star Destroyers to annihilate the entire world, declaring he will surrender Kashyyyk to no one, not even the Empire itself.
• Contested Sequel: Reception of the story is mixed and ties into the overall Broken Base of the trilogy. A number of fans see Life Debt as a step up from a rough start that was Aftermath and appreciated the world building for the new canon. There's still a number of fans who preferred the story-line and characterization in first book and view this book as a step down.